#cyanobacteria — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cyanobacteria, aggregated by home.social.
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Hot climate extremes and overcrowded industrial agriculture
* Extreme heat wave in France kills hundreds of thousands of poultry >>
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/extreme-heat-wave-in-france-kills-hundreds-of-thousands-of-poultry/* "The heat is also hitting cattle farmers. High temperatures reduce feed intake, increase water demand and cut milk output. They're standing there with their mouths wide open, just trying to find air...It's very difficult, physically for people and for the animals." >>
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/record-heat-causes-mass-poultry-deaths-france-2026-06-24/
#FossilFuels #Climate #HotPlanet #FactoryFarming #livestock #Meat #poultry #cattle #pigs #DieOff #ExtremeHeat #water #cyanobacteria #eutrophication #Birds #wildlife #Biodiversity #MassMortalities #carcasses #agriculture #Pathogens #PoultryFlu #overstocking #habitability -
Four cyanobacterial glycosyl transferase family 35 α-glucan phosphorylases of types I and II were biochemically characterized and one was crystallized and crystallographically analyzed #Cyanobacteria #CyanobacterialStarch #Glycogen https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053230X25007770
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Never a Dull Enzyme https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2024/05/never-a-dull-enzyme.html @STCmicrobeblog
Emergence of fractal geometries in the #evolution of a metabolic enzyme: Franziska Sendker et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07287-2
"Citrate synthase from S. elongatus has the peculiar capacity to self-assemble into a type of #fractal shape known as a #Sierpiński triangle. This is not a universal feature of citrate synthases, there's something unique about the one from this #cyanobacterium."